SeedWorld Podcast Alex Martin

When diving into the vegetable and flower seed sector, what’s one thing you really need to have to succeed? Well, according to Robb Bauman, you need to have a lot of patience ready to go. With trends constantly changing, unexpected events and long wait times for breeding, if you dive into the vegetable seed business […]

When working on importing, exporting or even producing seed outside of the U.S., phytosanitary concerns can pop up. Keeping up-to-date on what other regulatory bodies are concerned with in terms of phytosanitary concerns can help keep businesses and the U.S. ahead of the curve. According to Ric Dunkle, there’s a few things to be aware […]

There’s always going to be a next, big thing in vegetables. But where do the trends lie? In flavor? In shape? In color? For Nathan Pumplin, while trends are wonderful to fall into, he dreams of one thing: a more nutritious and better-tasting tomato. But, it just so happens that better tasting, more nutritious tomato […]

Florida needs alfalfa, but right now can’t really grow it. Anju Biswas is out to change that. Biswas is a Ph.D candidate in the agronomy department at the University of Florida. She works on on alfalfa breeding using phenomics and genomics selection and crop modeling to develop heat-stress tolerant alfalfa cultivars. She has obtained a […]

Did you know waxy sorghum can weather in the field faster than its non-waxy counterpart? Turns out that might not be true after all. Mitchell Kent grew up in central Illinois where he received a bachelor’s degree in crop science from the University of Illinois. Mitchell then moved to Texas where he received a master’s […]

Seed and its intellectual property protection regulations have been put under the microscope — but do IP regulations really hinder the U.S. economy? The USDA announced on May 11 that they were opening a comment period as a result of President Biden’s Executive Order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” to examine competition issues […]